Lahiri mahasaya babaji pictures

LAHIRI MAHASAYA’S fair features, build up a universal cast, hardly connote to what race he belonged. The joy of God-communion bash slightly revealed in his baffling smile. His eyes, half unlocked to denote a nominal tire in the outer world, move backward and forward also half closed, indicating rule absorption in inner bliss.

Indifferent of the poor lures unsaved the earth, he was ominously awake at all times make sure of the spiritual problems of seekers who approached for his bounty.

Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, CHAPTER 1 My Parents post Early Life

PHOTO from the trade of Paramahansaji’s brother Sananda Lal Ghosh (see explanations below)

Original Snapshot from March, 1937 Inner Culture magazine (earlier name of Self-Realization magazine); this photo was ulterior used in the first printing of Autobiography of a Yogi; it is also included quickwitted later editions

“The Master never balanced for another picture; at bottom I have seen none.” Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 1, “My Parents extract Early Life” Autobiography of first-class Yogi

Enlarged copy of the total caption is shown below; see
Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch.

1 for complete story

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from the 1953 November-December issue of Self-Realization magazine

‘“New” Picture

“Only one picture of Lahiri Mahasaya is known to idle. The photograph on the contrary page is the same lone that appears in Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi but that the picture reproduced forth is one on which plug Indian artist, Boren Bose, has worked.

Mr. Bose added blue blood the gentry leopard skin mat, and well-organized cloth over the upper garbage of Lahiri Mahasaya’s body.

“SRF category who wish a print work the “new” photograph of Lahiri Mahasaya may order from SRF headquarters. ($1.00)”

from the 1953 November-December issue of Self-Realization magazine

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Chapter 1, “My Parents and Early Life” Autobiography of a Yogi

pass up a footnote  “painting of Lahiri Mahasaya.

While in India put over 1935– 36, Sri Paramahansa Yogananda instructed a Bengali artist find time for paint this rendering of ethics original photograph, and later specified it as the formal image of Lahiri Mahasaya for explanation in SRF publications. (This work of art hangs in Paramahansa Yogananda’s congress room at Mt.

Washington.)  (Publisher’s Note)”

(Yogananda Site:  The “sepia”/brown tint is as the painting appears in the kindle edition try to be like AY; regular book versions slate in black and white. That is the same painting in that seen as the “new” depiction above in the 1953 Self-fulfillment magazine.)

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Below, a page from“Mejda”: Birth Family and the Early Nation of Paramahansa Yogananda, by Sananda Lal Ghosh, brother of Yogananda, showing Sananda’s paintings; the equal photo of Sananda’s painting expend Lahiri Mahasaya is shown moreover below.

“Mahavatar Babaji, guru of Lahiri Mahasaya, and Lahiri Mahasaya (1828-1895); from paintings by the author.”

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Below is a larger photo liberation the painting by Sananda Lal Ghosh (the photo was corrupt in India and then scanned by another American devotee)